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Squawk on the Street

Deutsche Bank Shares Drop, Activision Optimism, Tech Safe Haven 3/24/23

Squawk on the Street

CNBC

Business, News, Investing

4.1567 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

David Faber and Jim Cramer began with the ongoing turmoil in the banking sector. Deutsche Bank was the latest name to add to the volatility, with shares dropping following a spike in credit default swaps Thursday night. The anchors also turned their attention to Secretary Janet Yellen who said the Treasury Department is ready to take “additional actions if warranted” to stabilize banks. In M&A news, shares of Activision Blizzard surged after the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority dropped some of its concerns about Microsoft’s takeover of the gaming company. After the opening bells, the anchors also talked the tech stock safe haven, with names like Alphabet, Meta and Nvidia up more than 15% in March alone.

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0:00.0

Market Insight and Analysis. You're listening to the opening bell of CNBC, Squawk on the Street.

0:05.7

Good Friday morning. Welcome to Squawk on the Street. I'm David Faber with Jim Kramer. We're live from Post 9 at the New York Stock Exchange. Carl has the morning off.

0:13.5

Let's give you a look at futures. Get ready to wrap up. Another somewhat tumultuous week, although things had been a lot calmer in the banking sector until,

0:23.4

well, perhaps today. And our roadmap does start right there. Banks in focus yet again.

0:28.5

This time overseas, Deutsche Bank is dragging down the sector. It's the latest flare of concerns

0:33.6

about the health of banks worldwide. We'll discuss it, of course.

0:43.8

Activision shares, they are rallying why UK regulators reduce their concerns about Microsoft's acquisition of that gaming company.

0:47.3

And the tech safe haven shares with NetA, Alphabet, Apple.

0:52.5

They all are up quite nicely for the month of March.

0:58.0

All right, let's start with banking turmoil, Deutsche Bank.

1:00.5

You've seen it, of course, on Squawk Box.

1:02.3

The stock is down sharply in the pre-market.

1:04.1

This follows a spike in credit default swaps that occurred last night.

1:08.9

It takes you back, of course, to the 07-08 period, credit to false swaps

1:13.2

and how closely we watched them. This is a bank that's in actually a lot better shape than it

1:19.8

was certainly coming out of the crisis, Jim. But it's not a name that's unfamiliar to many.

1:24.8

I mentioned it earlier this week as sort of, well, will they try and

1:27.9

come after it? When I say, will they try to come after it? I'm referring to things like even

1:32.6

that tweet yesterday from Boaz Weinstein at Saba, a guy who used to actually trade and really

1:38.4

created the CVS market in some way when he was at Deutsche Bank years ago, getting people worried.

1:46.0

Okay. I think that's a great way to put. Oh, by the way, I'm going along Yeti here.

1:50.9

Okay. Yeah, that voice is still coming around. But it's better than... Okay, you were there when it went.

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